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by maininformer 1795 days ago
"As you know from teaching introductory statistics, 30 is infinity." -Gelman
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soperj 1795 days ago
Just wanted to say that this quote is hilarious. I tried to look it up, but couldn't find anything. What's it from?
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mumblemumble 1795 days ago
Andrew Gelman, a semi-famous statistician. Author of some good textbooks. I'm not sure of the original source, but here's a list of chestnuts from his website: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/gelman_quotes.pdf
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